Timber Press Open to Garden Bookworms!

pick up a book – and go home with ideas and inspiration!

Welcome to Timber Press! The latest and greatest publications are displayed at the entry… any one of those books would make great winter reading for any nature or plant lover. (I’m lusting after Succulent Plants of the World, myself.)

I had a meeting at the offices of TImber Press the other day. With a few minutes to kill before my meeting, I plonked myself down in the library corner. Surrounded by shelves stacked with fascinating gardening books, my eyes jumped from title to title: "Ah, I’ve been wanting to read that for ages!" – and then, "Oh, that’s that book so-and-so wrote, I wonder how that turned out?" – and then, "Hey, I didn’t know there was a book on green roof design, let me see what that looks like…". As you might imagine, it was nearly impossible to tear myself away from it all. After my appointment, I popped back to the little book nook to pore over more magical titles.

Check in with the receptionist, then head straight for the book nook!

Many Portlanders don’t realize that they can shop for books at Timber Press’s offices, right in the heart of downtown. The space is pretty small but nevertheless, there are a couple hundred of their 439 currently-in-print books available. That’s a lot to choose from!

I’ll take any one of these books, thank you. I’ve heard wonderful things about Sydney Eddison’s Gardening for a Lifetime but still haven’t read it. I think maybe my parents could use this book (and that means I’ll get to read her resonant prose, myself!)

It’s also a neat old area of downtown: Timber is housed in a historic stone and brick office building (the Haseltine Building) and there are some interesting restaurants and cafes close by, including banks of food carts over on SW 5th & Oak. Stop over during your lunch break or next time you’re downtown and pick out some books, for yourself or others.